About a month ago, I asked for feedback on a project I was working on. I originally began to build a WordPress code library after I had been using Dan Ciederholm’s Pears theme which encourages modular, object oriented, front-end development. I began to work on something that would do the same for WordPress patterns. But I had a bit of trouble figuring out exactly what that was. Thanks to your incredible feedback and a couple of supporters pushing me along, I have officially finished Version 1.0 of Looplet.

Event Espresso, in honor of their 4th birthday, is having a 20% off sale on all license package and add-on purchases now through April 30th! We think it’s always a reason to celebrate the continued growth of companies; it’s hard enough with the ever-increasing options out there for applications and solutions and we know competition is stiff. So we salute not only Event Espresso but all small businesses out there! Don’t give up my friends!

After the obviously-large brute force attack on thousands of WordPress blogs we have all been dramatically reminded (some more than others) that security is a must-have for WordPress sites. Not only that, it’s forced many of us to rethink the level of security that WordPress natively brings to the table and, of course, whether it’s “enough” to stop a massive attack from being effective again. I love how the community, together, has come up with a variety of resources, plugins, and suggestions that will not only stabilize and future-proof against entry but has also come up with solutions that target […]

Dieter Rams is a legend among legends in the design community, a community that I oftentimes peer into but have never really been a part of. Being an engineer primarily and not even on the same planet as a designer, I marvel at great product design and some of the insanity that many of you create via your designer toolkits and what not. But it’s not that I can’t find inspiration or learn a thing or two from all of you and even such luminaries as Dieter Rams. It’s been oft-shared his principles of design and I found inspiration afresh […]

With the recent news of MOJO Themes being acquired we knew that there would be some news coming from them about some of the neat stuff that they are planning on doing since the acquisition. Well, we can wonder no more because they’ve announced a new MOJO Marketplace that’ll be coming soon. They’ve been working on it for quite some time which will be perfectly integrated with Endurance’s hosting companies (the acquiring company). Sellers might want to get ready because the opportunity to insert yourself into millions of customer’s dashboards might be too good to pass up. It’ll be a […]

WerkPress was formed in 2011 to create a WordPress-focused studio capable of providing any WordPress service needed: from consultation, strategy and design, to development and maintenance. We currently have 14 people in-house and have become one of the leading WordPress customization shops in the world. Our office houses both the WerkPress team and sister company, Westwerk. We designed and built the space ourselves which took six months to complete, though the last three months were particularly hard because we were conducting business during the construction.

There is an ongoing attack on WordPress sites sweeping across the web and your install could be next. Using more than 90,000 IP addresses, this attack is cracking admin logins on weak WordPress systems. One web hosting company warned that these attacks are part of a process of building a botnet that is “more destructive than those available today.” According to Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, These larger machines can cause much more damage in DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attacks because the servers have large network connections and are capable of generating significant amounts of traffic. Yikes! Is your WordPress as safe as […]

Daniel, who was part of the VIP Services team at Automattic, has announced that he’s left the role just shy of two years of employment there. Citing the fact that he hasn’t felt like his personal growth was at an acceptable pace he’s looking for a more “challenging opportunity,” one that will push him to “learn, grow, and lead.” Daniel is a guy that most of this team subscribe to and he’s incredibly bright and eager to move on to the next big thing – he’s even open to hearing about new opportunities, so feel free to drop him a […]

While blogging is pre-eminently a textual form, in recent years the trend has been to tailor data presentation in order to make it easier to digest for readers. Visualizations and infographics have become commonplace, both as a means of improving communication and as a way to attract traffic. Images tend to have higher click-through and sharing rates on social media, and web pages that incorporate rich media attract higher levels of visits and interactions. That’s not to say that throwing a couple of quickly created graphs and tables into a post will improve it; nor will simply transferring your text […]

Much kudos and congrats go to Dominik Schilling as it’s been announced that he’s been given guest commit access for the rest of the 3.6 development cycle. As Andrew Nacin shares, Dominik has been contributing for 3 years+ and they’ve been quality contributions none-the-less: If you’ve had a chance to work with him, you probably noticed at least two things: calm judgment and biting sarcasm. I’ve found that the beta period is his bread-and-butter — he goes around polishing and fixing everything he can get his hands on. He’s also taken one for the team more than once on things […]